Reflect some of the ways that you want to assess your students, i.e. monitor their level of understanding what you're teaching.
In my classes, I will use both formative and summative assessment everyday. I use formative assessment, which are in class assessment, when I host discussions and create student centered experiments in class. My big formative project will be a electro magnet strength competition which takes all of the lessons I have taught and all the student reading and forces the students to apply them to complete a task. The student understanding will be apparent in the students who make the soundest choices in materials to produce a powerful electromagnet.
My summative assessment will be the student’s journal, which is a ongoing record of their work in and outside of the classroom
Describe your grading policy, i.e. how you will assign scores to represent performance. Explain why you are choosing to use this method. If you are continuing your CT's grading policy, explain what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
I will be using my CT's grading policy to avoid confusion among the students. My CT divides his grades into three categories homework, journal/project, and quiz/test. The students are used to the grading policy he created and I see no reason to change it. I feel keeping my CT's grading policy will help my students stay in their rhythm. The homework grade is a simple complete or incomplete grade where each homework assignment is worth ten points. The journal/project grade is a grade of both effort and quality that shows the work of the student for the entire unit. My culminating project will count in this category, as it will be an in class performance. The final grade is a quiz/test grade, which includes everything from the quick homework-reading quiz to the unit test. The grades from each of the three categories will be averaged together and that will be the student’s grade for the unit. The three grade policy my CT uses is beneficial in my opinion as it allows students to do well even if they have a weakness in test taking or presentation.
In my classes, I will use both formative and summative assessment everyday. I use formative assessment, which are in class assessment, when I host discussions and create student centered experiments in class. My big formative project will be a electro magnet strength competition which takes all of the lessons I have taught and all the student reading and forces the students to apply them to complete a task. The student understanding will be apparent in the students who make the soundest choices in materials to produce a powerful electromagnet.Reflect some of the ways that you want to assess your students, i.e. monitor their level of understanding what you're teaching.
My summative assessment will be the student’s journal, which is a ongoing record of their work in and outside of the classroom
Describe your grading policy, i.e. how you will assign scores to represent performance. Explain why you are choosing to use this method. If you are continuing your CT's grading policy, explain what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
I will be using my CT's grading policy to avoid confusion among the students. My CT divides his grades into three categories homework, journal/project, and quiz/test. The students are used to the grading policy he created and I see no reason to change it. I feel keeping my CT's grading policy will help my students stay in their rhythm. The homework grade is a simple complete or incomplete grade where each homework assignment is worth ten points. The journal/project grade is a grade of both effort and quality that shows the work of the student for the entire unit. My culminating project will count in this category, as it will be an in class performance. The final grade is a quiz/test grade, which includes everything from the quick homework-reading quiz to the unit test. The grades from each of the three categories will be averaged together and that will be the student’s grade for the unit. The three grade policy my CT uses is beneficial in my opinion as it allows students to do well even if they have a weakness in test taking or presentation.